by Joseph Edwin Pineda

Created on: October 24, 2008

What is Prayer?

If God knows everything, why pray?

Let me ask you a question. Do you have a child or know someone who does? If so, has your child ever touched or changed the heart of you or someone you know? Especially if they sincerely wept and wept bitterly at that, falling into your lap, or maybe extending their hands out in desperation for you to pick them up? Of course, how could you refuse such helplessness, in all sincerity a much needed love from a child? If you could possibly move the sun, moon and stars for your child, you would, and many times around. Who wouldn't? How much more our Father in heaven? We desire the best for our children, again, how much more our Father in heaven. Think on this.

What is prayer?

If God knows everything, why pray?

While at a beautiful family gathering "Good-Friday" of 2008, in celebration of our risen Savior, several very intriguing and theological questions came about. Some of these questions included; If God already knows all, then how, if at all, do our prayers benefit others. Does not God know what's already going to happen? Do our prayers truly have any barring or impact of outcome in the lives of those we pray for? And, can God's heart be touched or changed by our prayers?

As this deep theological conversation transpired, I couldn't help these nostalgic memories blaring in my mind; my Sunday school teachers saying, "Prayer is talking to God, it is not something to be taken lightly." This old Sunday school message was so true and yet so simple and to the point. It quite often reminds me, anyone can pray, you don't have to have a seminary degree to talk to and with God. However, in this particular writing, the question is not how simple prayer is; it is the question on the affects of prayer in the life of the person or persons praying, and the person or persons on the receiving end of prayer. Also, knowing that God is unchanging, and already wrote past, present and future, can we, as children of God plead for change in certain circumstances, by fervent and faithful prayer? The answer is? Keep reading.

Please, before I endeavor to respond to these great questions, I ask that you keep in mind, that God is a great and glorious God, and if we could fully understand Him, then He would not be God. I would also ask that you continue to ask the Lord Jesus for wisdom and understanding of Him and His Word, (James 1:5). Jesus says that those who seek Him will find Him and those that ask, will receive, and if you lack in wisdom, ask.

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